Marvin is amazed when he goes home with Casey Happleton one day after school and discovers that she lives in an old fire station. But that's not all that surprises him. Casey has a secret she wants to share - a crystal with super magical powers. A crystal that makes all your wishes come true. Can it be real or could she be casting her own spell on him?

Three rare classics by a beloved author and illustrator transport kids to the farm for adventures with a plucky little chicken named Henrietta. Syd Hoff, author of Danny and the Dinosaur, brings his distinctive warmth and whimsy to these endearing tales of barnyard life. Henrietta Lays Some Eggs : It's market day but Henrietta doesn't want to join Farmer Gray and the other chickens, so she flies off the truck for a lively day among pigs, ducks, and hungry hobos. Henrietta, the Early Bird : While the rooster's off duty, Henrietta takes charge of waking the other animals and Farmer Gray — none of whom want anything to do with her cock-a-doodle-dooing. Henrietta Goes to the Fair : Farmer Gray has high hopes of winning the blue ribbon at the fair with Winthrop, his largest pig. When Henrietta makes an important discovery about the competition, she hitches a ride to the fair and encounters a big surprise.

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

All the kids who brought a souvenir back from HorrorLand thought they were getting a free gift. They thought wrong. Now Jonathan Chiller has summoned them back to HorrorLand to collect payment. The only way to escape this terror is by winning a sinister scavenger hunt.

Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel's Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter Poverty; Menaseh's Dream; When Shlemiel went to Warsaw.

Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus

Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the community hobby show. Cam and Eric are checking out a sports memorabilia booth when a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth disappears. Can Cam catch the thief and recover the Babe's ball? The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades.

Two months after her sister Justine falls down the stairs to her death, Clarissa Turner hears from her sister through a telephone psychic, who brings the information that Justine has been murdered, and Clarissa soon realizes that she may be the next target.

In this new series from the master of children's horror, everyday people enter a world one step beyond the everyday. Maggie O'Connor goes to the carnival with her friends and leaves screaming in horror after an old woman reads her palm in The Nightmare Room.

Stine is the world's bestselling horror writer for children, but this is his first novel for adults. Liam is a bachelor professor of folklore and he's incurably superstitious. When people start getting murdered, it seems that Liam's demons are real.

When Santa and his reindeer return from their Christmas Eve trip around the world, they realize that one of them is missing and a search begins.

Slappy's back as a ghost! And this time, the only thing you'll play is hide-and-go-shriek!

Sarah's family is completely bizarre. So Sarah wishes that her family were different--and cooler. Then magically, Sarah gets her wish--she gets her perfect family. And learns that from now on she should be really careful what she wishes for!

Be prepared for a super-scary summer holiday in Cat Cay. You'll soon find out how it got its name - it'scrawling with creepy cats that turn very nasty after dark. How will you escape their claws and avoid the seriously weird cat-woman Katrina Madd? It'sall up to you!

"Sascha Nelson and her best friend, Nicole Hilliard, love to cook! So when their favorite TV show Kids' Big Chef Food Fights comes to their school for a special competition, they're ecstatic! But school cheaters Ashli and Nathan are also in the show. When Sascha and Nicole buy a mysterious can called Monster Blood is Back, they think they've found the perfect ingredient. Unfortunately, the trouble with Monster Blood always seems to grow and grow. Can they get the slime under control, or will it swallow up the competition?"--Page [4] of cover.

Lizzy Caldwell is so excited when she's asked to join the Camp Fear Girls. It sounds like such a cool club. Even though the clubhouse is on Fear Street--the spookiest street around. Even though the troop badges show coffins and hangman's nooses. Even though the Camp Fear Girls are mysteriously vanishing.

One of the guests at the hotel where Aunt Molly is staying gives her beloved Little Tiger to a bellhop to bring to her room. Yet the cat never arrives and now the bellhop has vanished. Can Cam's photographic memory help solve the mystery? B&W illustrations.

Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world’s foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child’s behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to “the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time.” To understand the way children actually develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it will be necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. This book offers an important blueprint for constructing such a new and ecologically valid psychology of development. The blueprint includes a complete conceptual framework for analysing the layers of the environment that have a formative influence on the child. This framework is applied to a variety of settings in which children commonly develop, ranging from the pediatric ward to daycare, school, and various family configurations. The result is a rich set of hypotheses about the developmental consequences of various types of environments. Where current research bears on these hypotheses, Bronfenbrenner marshals the data to show how an ecological theory can be tested. Where no relevant data exist, he suggests new and interesting ecological experiments that might be undertaken to resolve current unknowns. Bronfenbrenner’s groundbreaking program for reform in developmental psychology is certain to be controversial. His argument flies in the face of standard psychological procedures and challenges psychology to become more relevant to the ways in which children actually develop. It is a challenge psychology can ill-afford to ignore.

Children have been one of Nan Goldin's ongoing photographic subjects, and they have provided some of her most moving and intimate works. Eden and After presents her selection of just some of these photographs, which include portraits of the children of Nan's close friends. Through these unique portraits, Nan presents a complex investigation of childhood. Some photographs depict children alone, others show them in familial and social groups. From pregnancy and newborns through to teenagers, some subjects have been documented by Nan through their entire lives. The portraits capture children in their vastly changing emotional states, from lonely and introverted to their most exuberant, literally flying through the air.--Publisher.